Sam Jolley, Assistant Curator at the Royal Engineers Museum, Gillingham, joins me to talk about her research into the women who marched with, and fought in, the armies of the Napoleonic era.
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As always interesting - though this is not restricted to the French or British Army, as usual it is sad to see the almost absence of other armies, like other German Armies, Cantinieres, or in the German equivalent - Marketenderin - were quite well known and established, here some images of the 7YW, one of them having a coffee machine and using to to make money selling coffee.



The omission of women in any capacity in the Austrian and Prussian armies, as well as the Russian army, is doubtless due to the language deficiency of some historians. Thus the subject is once again incomplete, and uses the same old/same old sources.
to add a Bavarian Marketenderin in the Russian campaign of 1812, Eugene the Viceroi of Italy, just donated some money - handed over by one of his ADCs - while she was breast feeding her new born baby